On Friday November 2, 2012 Vancouver will host a special evening in tribute of the5 Cuban heroes held in US jails to open the 4 day of Che Guevara InternationalConference. Saturday and Sunday November 3 & 4 will feature two full daysin Vancouver with many workshops to provide enough time for discourse, debate,argument, polemics and politics! Then we will take the Che Conference over 350kilometers to the east to Kamloops, BC for 2 highly anticipated workshops onthe evening of Monday November 5.

The Vancouver International Che Guevara Conference began in 2008 in honour of Che’s80th birthday. Each conference has held a unique theme, the first conference“Che Guevara: Thinker & Fighter - Are His Ideas Relevant for the 21stCentury?”; 2009 conference “50 years of Dynamism of the Cuban Revolution”; 2010conference “Cuba & Revolutionary Internationalism“ and 2011 Conference “CubaToday: The Gains & Challenges”. These 4 notable events which debated anddiscussed the importance of the Cuban revolution and the Cuba solidarity movementworldwide from the point of view of activists and revolutionaries were the onlyof their kind in Canada. We are pleased that in the last four years wehave brought out more than 1,700 people, 35 speakers, and 35 different subjectssurrounding the Cuban revolution and its internal and external dynamics.

The 2012 conference will expand on the previous 4 years, with the theme of“Cuba’s Economic Reforms: Capitalism or Socialism”. We will be welcoming manyimportant guests, including our honoured guest for the third year in a row, Dr.Aleida Guevara, Cuban Leader, Prominent Author and Daughter of LegendaryRevolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. We hope to see you at the 5th annual Canada InternationalChe Guevara Conference.